SKU: CA.916900
ISBN 9790007187439. Language: French. Text: Baudelaire, Charles.
SKU: CA.924000
ISBN 9790007244354. Language: French. Text: Bourget, Paul.
Claude Debussy's romance L'ame evaporee et souffrante is a setting of Paul Bourget's Romance from the collection Les aveux (1882). The song was first published in 1891 with Les cloches, but had probably been composed earlier in 1885. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).
SKU: CA.916800
ISBN 9790007186944. Language: French.
SKU: LO.10-5538S
ISBN 9780787771775.
This work is a true and exciting rarity: an accessible sacred anthem by the great French composer Claude Debussy. Richard Williamson has arranged this selection from one of the composer's early cantatas. The words (translated into sung English) celebrate God's glory as manifested in the beauty of nature. A practical accompaniment is effective on either piano or organ.
SKU: GH.N01890
ISBN 9790070026192. A4 inches.
Aldre fransk melodi arrangerad for blandad kor av Claude Goudimel. Text ur den Svenska Psalmboken.
SKU: CA.625000
ISBN 9790007012007. Key: F major. Language: German.
Based on the setting by Claude Goudimel; trumpet parts by Bernhard Henking.
SKU: OU.9780193418004
ISBN 9780193418004. 11 x 7 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied.
SKU: PR.352004370
ISBN 9781491110355. UPC: 680160056880. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Key: Ab major. English, French. Text: Theodore De Beze. Theodore de Beze.
SKU: ST.CN29P
ISBN 9790220225550.
Choral settings of 'Lift up your heads, O ye gates' from Psalm 24 are numerous, from that of the sixteenth-century Geneva Psalter of Claude Goudimel to the present day. Unsurprisingly so, as the text has many appropriate liturgical applications. In this jubilant setting, The King of Glory, Sarah Rodgers has provided church choirs of all abilities with a truly celebratory anthem that in its writing for SATB displays many elements of choral craft, from unison and two-part textures to a satisfyingly contrapuntal full harmony. The driving, rhythmic figure in the organ accompaniment underpins and uplifts the voices, and occasional harmonic juxtapositions add delightfully unexpected moments of colour. Importantly, with a proficient organist, the anthem can be prepared with just one or two rehearsals. It is certain to be of great appeal both to choirs and to congregations.
SKU: CA.926200
ISBN 9790007249243. Key: E major. Language: French. Text: Bourget, Paul.
Beau soir seems to have inspired musicians to make their own arrangements - for violin, cello, saxophone quartet, or even for five-part chamber choir and piano, as in this version by Denis Rouger. Unlike the instrumental versions, this one retains Paul Bourget's text: the poetic depiction of a sunset on a mild summer evening, on which light and shade merge into one another like the rhythm and harmony in Debussy's setting. It is not an unclouded depiction, but the recognition of our own finiteness. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).
